Favorite films

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  Princess Mononoke 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 04 Jun 2024 2

  I have a woefully complicated relationship and checkered past with this movie. On one hand, I absolutely adore and appreciate it now for what it is - a seemingly endless treasure trove of perfect animation, storytelling, character work, and countless evocative pieces of its score that shred me as the film plays out. On the other hand, I must admit that when I first watched it well over a decade ago, I was incredibly unreceptive to it. It was too…

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  Nothing But a Man 1964

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 May 2024

  While I initially was thinking this film was somewhat amateur (it was Roemer’s first of 3 films) and stilted for the first 10-15 minutes, something clicked for me and I quickly began to warm up to its rhythm and neorealist approach. Beautiful black and white compositions, mostly comprised of close ups or Duff wandering around incredibly textured environments allow a sense of real familiarity with characters you barely spend 90 minutes with. It’s an incredible and economical film that frankly…

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  a really random super unbelievably pro monogamy spy movie where I’m pretty sure tom burke might be the hottest person, but cate blanchett is a really close second
  I ask again: who gonna ride like this with me fr

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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  A film that rightfully feels like punishment while watching. Lynch simultaneously at his most commercial with the soundtrack, and at some of his most abstract asking us to ride along as Pullman becomes Getty and the wheels continuing to fly off from there. Admittedly this is the first time I’ve got through this in one sitting, it has never been my favorite of Lynch’s works but damn if it isn’t a really fascinating meditation on the OJ trial and our…

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  El Doctor 2006

  Watched 18 Apr 2020

  Voice acting<everything else

  The camerawork in this is PHENOMENAL

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2024 1

  Maybe I’m just being a hater but this was a complete fucking nightmare of whiplash going from total slog to arguably some of Villeneuve’s better sequences in his career. Maybe it was just the mood I was in going into this but when this movie was losing me, I was borderline comatose - the first third of this was unbelievably lacking when it comes to narrative thrust because of the way it feels like playing patronizing catch-up. Chani and Paul’s…